Here's some updates:
Rob and I visiting Wewahitcka again for the honey.
Azalea bushes in full bloom are everywhere!Recent Trip:
I LOVE flying standby! I mean, talk about marrying into the right family - condo in Cancun, cheap standby flights, horses in the country... plus, they're totally awesome!
I began my standby journey early (as all such journeys are begun) waking up at 3:10am to check in for my flight. I left my house at 4:10am to drive to the airport in Ft. Walton Beach, near Eglin, to arrive an hour early for my 7:10am flight. My parents were amazed at my early morning capability.
I dropped into the USO in the Dallas airport - which is the most amazing place in world, by the way! If you're a military member or spouse, GO THERE! The people are so happy and friendly and the food and everything is free! Plus, it makes me proud to see all the men and women serving the country. I want to volunteer at a USO one day!
I was so disappointed to not get on my planned flight from DFW to IAH in Houston! But that's part of the fun of flying standby - it's kind of like taking trains in Europe... "oops, I missed that train. where can I go instead?" I caught the next flight to Hobby Airport instead and Mom and I were very pleased to discover that Hobby is a really good airport - I think I shall fly there as my first choice now.
We then embarked upon a wonderful shopping adventure with a choir of retail angels singing the hallelujiah chorus as we first enjoyed Whole Foods and then spent the rest of our day at Anthropologie. *sigh* It was wonderful!
Really neat lamp at Anthropologie that I'm SO making!Other highlights include dinner with Martin and girlfriend Caroline, hanging out with Dad, and more girl time with Mom!
The parents and I then drove to San Antonio on Wednesday for Dad's medical conference where I got to relive childhood memories of annual San Antonio medical conference stays in the Hyatt across from the Alamo and letting out onto the Riverwalk (the best place to stay in San Antonio!) We simply HAD to get some Mexican food! YUM! We walked the riverwalk - lovely! And we absolutely had to take pictures in front of the Alamo!! So fun!
Thursday, I embarked upon my return standby trip early (again), waking up at 1am, thinking I missed my alarm, waking up at 2am, thinking I missed it again, waking up at 3am to check in, waking up at 4am to get ready, and leaving at 4:30 to the airport. I got on all my planned flights this time and got back home after driving through some spring break traffic at 1:30pm. I was able to just greet Rob and send him out the door for his night flying days (where he goes to work around 1 and gets home around midnight). I then took a quick nap.I woke up (there was far too much waking up on this day!) and met the girls for some crud practice, the big tournament being Friday and went to a self defense class following. Yes, it was a busy day!
The self defense class was great! If you ever get a chance to take one, do! It was more about preventing attacks than moves to do on people. It was nice in that it tried to create adrenaline in the class and have you work amid your adrenaline. The instructor said more than my body language, my eyes told him to go away - I told him those were my mean substitute teacher eyes :-) he he.
They've been doing controlled burns in the neighborhood and I thought it was so interesting! They have cans like pest control guys and spray a liquid-type fire on the ground that burns the underbrush. The forested area certainly looks a lot cleaner.
Speaking of the look of our neighborhood, there have been so many moving trucks!! We're so happy we only have to move once!
That's all in this post. Enjoy catching up with us!
1 comment:
So sorry that we couldn't see you on your Texas visit...we are looking forward to driving up for dinner before your big departure though! Glad you had a good time!
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